PAK FA aircraft to have latest missiles

The Tactical Missiles Corporation (TRV) is concluding tests on the Kh-58USHK missile designed to equip the PAK FA, also known as the 5th generation fighter or the T-50.

The Tactical Missiles Corporation (TRV) is concluding tests
on the Kh-58USHK missile designed to equip the PAK FA, also known as the 5th
generation fighter or the T-50.

“This is absolutely the newest product that has nothing in
common with the old X-58, apart from the index: it is half the size of the
X-58, and it is equipped with a completely different homing,” TRV Chief
Executive Boris Obnosov told TASS. “We are completing the state tests for it
just now, and this includes test launches of the T-50 experimental aircrafts.”

He added that the PAK FA “is the only Russian platform,
equipped with an anti-radar missile with an internal fuselage placement.” However,
it can be mounted on the external hard points, according to Obnosov.

The corporation also continues to work successfully on the
X-74m2 – another new missile, “designed to equip the T-50 fighter in the first
stage,” he said. “The PAK FA will have
completely new weapons” Obnosov added. “Here, we are only presenting some of our
new rockets.”